I think that there are different sorts of abilities. GW has the
ability to make small talk and be personable. He can see you at a bar
and chat with you about baseball and charm you. He can easily do well
in small gatherings, social groups, crack jokes, wink eyes, be
confident, etc. People that have met him briefly, including my wife,
say that he is very personable and can quickly engage others into
small talk and conversations about sports, the weather, etc.
On the other hand, nobody would question the GW has tremendous
difficulty expressing himself when making longer than two minutes
presentations, or when he is asked to respond to specific questions
that require elaborate answers and usage of elaborate sentences with
broad vocabulary. I think that there are two possibilities for him
having difficulty at this. One is lack of reading which will prevent
him from having an adequate vocabulary. The other is that he may read
plenty, but he has some kind of a processing or learning disability
that prevents him from either retaining or processing certain type of
vocabulary.
So, in conclusion. If we accept that there are different types of
abilites (or smarts). GW does have the abiltiy to make small party
talk. I don't have this ability at all. On the other hand e doesn't
have good vocabulary processing and public speaking skills. The
question is why has he had difficulty developing this?
Bill Clinton, Ross Perot, for example, are both very good small
talkers and a good public speakers. William Buckley is also pretty
good at both but his small talk is limited by his pompousness. Reagan
was very good at small talk and at using limited language skills in a
broader range of topics. While his vocabulary was limited his oratory
skills could compensate for this limitation. He had the ability to
manipulate a small range of vocabulary to multiple situations or to
subtly change topics. These are of course my opinions. Other examles?
Andres.
[email protected] (VCopelan) wrote in message news:<
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> > [email protected] (Eagle Jackson) Writes:
>
> >You probably think Al Gore, another scion of a prominent political
> >family and who like GWB is Harvard educated is "smarter" than GWB.
>
> I don't know if I would say smarter. Perhaps, it's just that he has an
> adequate command of the english language which makes him (and most everyone
> else) seem more intelligent than GWB. And as we all know, he invented the
> internet. Since when did George W attend Harvard? GWB attended Yale like his
> dad and grandfather.